Valve: a history of Innovation

From Text-Adventure Action Games to Hand-held gaming devices, we explore Valve's tumultuous journey from their founding in 1976 to 2004 gaming stardom. To get started, click here

• Half-Life, a mix of text-based and graphics-based adventure game.
• Team-Fortress, the board game turned competitive multiplayer action game (on the Half-Life engine!)
• Ricochet, a demonstration of the Half-Life engine's flexibility.
• Counter-Strike, the military simulator/tactical virtual board game that evolved into a Multi-User Dungeon.
• Deathmatch Classic, a Multi-User Dungeon in the Half-Life setting.
• Day of Defeat, a WW2 simulator built upon the Multi-User Dungeon framework of previous multiplayer games.
• Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, the experimental CS sequel.
• Alien Swarm, the tabletop alien war game.
• Steam, the PC game catalogue that thrusted Valve into the stratosphere.
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